As tough as it might be to picture, just about everything was a baby once, from the biggest, scariest carnivores to the tiniest, cutest little balls of fur. Some of the cutest creatures in the world start out really strange looking - newborn kangaroos look kind of like hairless pink rodents - and vice versa - a baby gila monster is more adorable than you might expect. When it comes to babies, you never really know what you’re going to get.

And of course, a baby doesn’t know that it’s a baby. A baby dragon, for instance, has no idea that it will soon grow into one of the largest, most fearsome creatures in all of mythology. When you’re snug in your mother’s nest, breathing out smoke and waiting to be fed, you don’t think too much about your future days of flying across the countryside, frightening villagers and collecting gold for your treasure cave. A baby dragon is happy to be a baby dragon, ferocious future or not.

Outfit your infant like the toughest baby on the block in this hand-crocheted polyester yarn costume. The hat features a row of spikes that run down the back in a tail, with a matching pair of booties with their own set of spikes. It’s about as cute and cuddly a combo as you could ever hope to find on a dragon. Just keep your eyes peeled as the years go by, and remember that soon enough you’ll have a full-grown dragon on your hands.